Mackenzie| a troubled but daring teenage girl| is sent by her struggling
mother to live with her uncle in Juneau| Alaska. Although Uncle seems like a
supportive
caretaker and friend| the relationship turns and Mackenzie is forced to
run. Trying to make her way back to Seattle alone to find her absent mother|
Mackenzie only
winds up deeper in the Alaskan interior. Lost and with no one else to turn
to| she shadows a loner backpacker| Bartlett| an unlikely father figure with
scars of his
own. Together| they cross the wilderness and discover sanctuary in the last
frontier.